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1038 Prophecy of Ezechiel

and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his Chapter 4
iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.
And thou, O son of man, take thee a tile, and
20 Moreover if the just man shall turn away
lay it before thee: and draw upon it the plan of
from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I
the city of Jerusalem.
will lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall
2 And lay siege against it, and build forts, and
die, because thou hast not given him warning:
cast up a mount, and set a camp against it, and
he shall die in his sin, and his justices which he
place battering rams round about it.
hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will
3 And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it
require his blood at thy hand.
for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and
21 But if thou warn the just man, that the set thy face resolutely against it, and it shall be
just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: it
shall live, because thou hast warned him, and is a sign to the house of Israel.
thou hast delivered thy soul. 4 And thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and
22 And the hand of the Lord was upon me, shalt lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon
and he said to me: Rise and go forth into the it, according to the number of the days that thou
plain, and there I will speak to thee. shalt sleep upon it, and thou shalt take upon
thee their iniquity.
23 And I rose up, and went forth into the
5 And I have laid upon thee the years of their
plain: and behold the glory of the Lord stood
iniquity, according to the number of the days
there, like the glory which I saw by the river
three hundred and ninety days: and thou shalt
Chobar: and I fell upon my face.
bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
24 And the spirit entered into me, and set me 6 And when thou hast accomplished this, thou
upon my feet: and he spoke to me, and said to shalt sleep again upon thy right side, and thou
me: Go in; and shut thyself up in the midst of shalt take upon thee the iniquity of the house of
thy house. Juda forty days: a day for a year, yea, a day for
25 And thou, O son of man, behold they shall a year I have appointed to thee.
7 And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of
put bands upon thee, and they shall bind thee
with them: and thou shalt not go forth from the Jerusalem and thy arm shall be stretched out:
and thou shalt prophesy against it.
midst of them.
8 Behold I have encompassed thee with bands:
26 And I will make thy tongue stick fast to
and thou shalt not turn thyself from one side to
the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb,
the other, till thou hast ended the days of thy
and not as a man that reproveth: because they
siege.
are a provoking house.
9 And take to thee wheat and barley, and
27 But when I shall speak to thee, I will open beans, and lentils, and millet, and fitches, and
thy mouth, and thou shalt say to them: Thus put them in one vessel, and make thee bread
saith the Lord God: He that heareth, let him thereof according to the number of the days that
hear: and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: thou shalt lie upon thy side: three hundred and
for they are a provoking house. ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.